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Constitution of the Republic of Benin

40

Jurisdiction
Benin
Provision
40
Source language
English
Recorded status
in force
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Recorded status
in force

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ARTICLE 40. The State has the duty to assure the diffusion and the teaching of the Constitution, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights of 1981 as well as all of the international instruments duly ratified and relative to Human Rights. The State must integrate the rights of the individual into the programs of literacy and of teaching in the various scholastic and university academic cycles and into all the educational programs of the Armed Forces, of the Public Security Forces and of comparable categories. The State must equally assure the diffusion and teaching of these same rights in the national languages by all the means of mass communication, and particularly by radio and television.

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Constitution of the Republic of Benin · wipo.int · Retrieved 18 August 2026.

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